An Alaska Airways Boeing 737 Max 9 plane is grounded at Los Angeles Worldwide Airport in California on Jan. 8, 2024.
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Boeing will add additional high quality inspections for the 737 MAX after an accident earlier this month the place a fuselage panel was blown off an airplane, the top of its industrial airplanes division mentioned Monday.
The planemaker can even deploy a group to provider Spirit AeroSystems — which makes and installs the plug door concerned within the incident — to verify and approve Spirit’s work earlier than fuselages are despatched to Boeing’s manufacturing amenities in Washington state, Stan Deal, president of Boeing Business Airplanes, mentioned in a letter to Boeing staff.